Iām at a bar and theyāre playing a horror movie *
* yes, marvel films arenāt horror but the bar TV had MOTION SMOOTHING turned on
Iām at a bar and theyāre playing a horror movie *
* yes, marvel films arenāt horror but the bar TV had MOTION SMOOTHING turned on
https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.
Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.
I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.
A financial planner I havenāt talked to in 20 years emailed to thank me for something Iād written on my blog which was super nice but they opened their email with āI just read your substack and it was wonderfulā and now Iām a little mad to hear the nazi-loving email service is a generic phrase synonymous with āpersonal essaysā in business peopleās minds already.
Oh hey I just landed in San Diego with a bit of time to kill, Iāll watch the end of the dodgers gameā¦
Huh, Iām in SoCal which means I canāt watch anything even though I donāt live here?!
Oh, I have tailscale! Lemme turn on the exit node to get my Oregon home IPā¦
Ah, thereās my baseball video feed
Tailscale is the goddamned greatest. I also had to use it recently on plane WiFi when downloading updates from the App Store was completely blocked by the airline.
itās so weird how some kids peacefully sitting with signs suddenly turned into a warzone after we called in overly funded militarized cops, gosh itās so mysterious how that always happens
Enshittification comes for us all, even Descript which I already pay $20/mo for because it's the best podcast editing platform on earth. Last year they added a Robot AI feature that could take your voice and create new audio from your own scripts to let you insert missing words. I went to test it out again today but got this message on a single sentence.
Moab Day 2: eye of the whale arch, tower arch, shafer road, deadhorse point
also here's 8 seconds of silent drone footage of a canyon
I remember back in 2018 when Michael Cohen was guilty of falsifying election records he said federal charges would come down to trump too, who urged him to fake the payments on checks trump personally signed. I remember writing a āthey finally got him!ā tweet in 2018 and actually believing it.
Six long years later, trump will play dumb, I canāt remember and I never told anyone anything and will get off. And he will use the case to push more disinformation about his past crimes.
You might say I sound dejected and cynical, but trump plays the media like a fiddle, and news orgs are more than happy to entertain a clown that brings clicks and eyeballs. Violating FEC laws is very serious business with stiff consequences, but nothing substantive will come from this NYC case.
This is how you properly honor historyās greatest monsters: not at all.
You donāt put up statues of them in center of your town. You donāt name universities or military bases after them. You donāt fly their flag hundreds of years later. You donāt argue ābut they are part of my southern heritage!ā
Because of Arizonaās horrendous abortion ruling today, every event planner I know is going to cross another state off their list of āplaces we can hold conferences and offsites that support emergency healthcare procedures if they arise with any of our employees while they are thereā.
Imagine you're Salesforce with 75,000 employees and you do a winter offsite and an employee is suddenly having complications from an ectopic pregnancy while there. They can't be helped in any local hospital so do they fly home immediately while hoping they survive the flight? Does the family get to sue the company for taking the employee to a place that ultimately caused their death?
These are real situations we have to explore when you reinstitute a 160 year old law banning procedures.
Happy victory over treason day! Also enjoy the only confederate flag we should recognize and celebrate.
itās like twitter 2007 up in here!
Despair feels obvious but itās giving in to the worst forces working against us.
This is a lot to ponder over corn flakes, no idea why it hit me like a bolt of lightning this morning.
Slowly realizing our current existence on planet earth is actually more dystopian than almost any fictional story told but when faced with a plague of inhumanity my strongest protest is giving out as much love, compassion, and kindness as possible.
actual pre-internet conversation I had probably around 1995:
him: what are you listening to?!
me: Social D, they fuckin rock
him: no, I mean, what the hell are they singing?
me: Ring of Fire, one of their best
him: are you serious right now? That's not their song
me: Sure it is! It's a Social Distortion classic!
him: it's a Johnny Cash song, you numbskull!
me: whaaaat-ever
fact: Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm was the best thing that happened in 2001
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